Quantity and Quality: Some Aspects of Measurement
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982:183 - 198 (1982)
| Abstract | A description is given of the quantitative-qualitative distinction for terms in theories of measurable attributes, and, adjoined to that account, a suggestion is made concerning the sense in which empirical relational systems have an empirical attribute as their topic or focus. Since this characterization of quantitative terms, relative to a partition, makes no explicit reference to numbers, concatenation operations, or ordering relations, we show how our results are related to some standard theorems in the literature. Analogs of representation and uniqueness theorems are proved, and the notions of exact quantitative term and the underlying attribute of a quantitative term, are described and studied. | |||||||||
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